Medicine: Remember Venus?

When L. Ron Hubbard gave dianetics to a wondering world (TIME, July 24,
1950), it looked as though he had claimed everything in sight, and
more. "The hidden source of all psychosomatic ills and human aberration
has been discovered," he wrote then, "and skills have been developed
for their invariable cure." But to Science Fictioneer Hubbard, these
achievements soon seemed like kid stuff. He broke with the Hubbard
Dianetic Foundation in Wichita, "to further pursue investigations into
the incredible and fantastic," as the foundation puts it. Now, the
founder of still another cult, he claims to have discovered...